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You have to pay to play as Scarlett Fox, a character in the mobile game Temple Run. Imangi Studios hide caption itoggle caption Imangi Studios You have to pay to play as Scarlett Fox, a character in the mobile game Temple Run. Imangi Studios Maddie Messer is 12 years old. She loves science, her dog,…
Age of Empires II is so old it was released in the 20th century. And 15 years into the 21st-century, it’s getting a new expansion. It’s for the HD version of the game released on Steam a few years back, and will actually be the second expansion for the refreshed title; another, The Forgotten, originally…
Since yesterday, Square Enix has been teasing a new game via a three-day alternate reality game that was due to end tomorrow. But their surprise has been ruined. Today, an early leak from the Russian website Kanobu.RU (as found by NeoGAF) has revealed that the big tease is for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a sequel…
Following a disappointing finish at last week’s Call of Duty Championships, Matthew “NaDeSHoT” Haag, one of the most recognizable individual eSports stars, is stepping down from his captaincy of top Call of Duty team OpTic gaming and leaving competitive video gaming, but only temporarily, he says. “I felt my passion to win wasn’t high enough to…
The Duke o’ Death is a unique, super-powerful car in Grand Theft Auto 5‘s single player mode that isn’t meant to be found or driven in Grand Theft Auto Online. Some folks found an exploit, however, that allowed them to illegally import it like a Nissan Skyline. They are being dealt with. Hilariously. Rather than just…
Read any review, discussion, forum thread or opinion on From Software’s new PS4 exclusive Bloodborne, and you’re bound to encounter the phrase: “it’s not for everyone.” Sometimes it’s sort of an embarrassed acknowledgement: “I know, this thing is weird and painful, but here’s what I like about it.” More often, it’s sort of a smirking…
cache hit 371:single/related:1e6d73af662c029f845c9bf78cd7213d empty Enlarge / Zoe Quinn speaks at the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sam Machkovech When I sat down with her in January 2015, Zoe Quinn looked like she’d been through hell. In the public eye, Quinn was a number of things: an independent video game developer; a withdrawn, idiosyncratic presence at…
When PlayStation Europe posted the PlayStation Plus free games for March 2015 earlier this week, their URL included Dishonored, despite the game not being included. Since the PS+ announcement for this month was delayed by a few days, people speculated that Dishonored was supposed to be a freebie, but was switched at the last minute….
Enlarge / Concept art for the “Torch KS,” a predecessor to Descent’s Pyro GX. cache hit 334:single/related:6a6ce833dffdef0c946b7c2dca3011f4 empty The last time we checked in with Eric “Wingman” Peterson was August of 2014, where he was running Cloud Imperium Games’ Austin office and overseeing development on Star Citizen’s persistent universe. However, just a few months after…
All images taken from FM Towns Marty (Header image source) /// We just had a watershed victory with the passing of net neutrality. If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had brought in laws that allowed companies to regulate and restrict the internet, the entire online landscape would have changed. That this didn’t happen means the…